Brief Life History of Lucy Gunn
When Lucy Gunn Allen was born on 28 September 1840, in Yelrome, Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, Joseph Stewart Allen, was 30 and her mother, Lucy Diantha Morley, was 24. She married Frederick Walter Cox Jr. on 20 April 1857, in President's Office, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 15 November 1928, in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Manti Cemetery, Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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- Lucy Cox in household of Frederick W Cox, "United States Census, 1870"
- Utah, Select County Marriages, 1887-1937
- Lucy Gunn Allen Cox, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1841 · The Nauvoo Legion
In 1841, the Nauvoo Legion was organized. It was a group of men formed to protect the people of Nauvoo but also fought in different wars. Joseph Smith was the Lieutenant General of this group. Other leaders included Brigham Young, John C. Bennett, and others. They were part of the Illinois Mormon War (1844-1846), Mexican-American War (March of California, Capture of Tucson), Indian Wars (Battle Creek Massacre, Battle of Fort Utah, Walker War, Ute Black Hawk War, Mountain Meadows Massacre), American Civil War, and Morrisite War. The Legion was disbanded in 1887.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from the Middle English, Old French personal name Alain, Alein (Old Breton Alan), from a Celtic personal name of great antiquity and obscurity. In England the personal name is now usually spelled Alan, the surname Allen; in Scotland the surname is more often Allan. From 1139 it was common in Scotland, where the surname also derives from Gaelic Ailéne, Ailín, from ail ‘rock’. The present-day frequency of the surname Allen in England and Ireland is partly accounted for by the popularity of the personal name among Breton followers of William the Conqueror, by whom it was imported first to Britain and then to Ireland. Saint Alan(us) was a 5th-century bishop of Quimper, who was a cult figure in medieval Brittany. Another Saint Al(l)an was a Cornish or Breton saint of the 6th century, to whom a church in Cornwall is dedicated.
English: occasionally perhaps from the rare Middle English femaje personal name Aline (Old French Adaline, Aaline), a pet form of ancient Germanic names in Adal-, especially Adalheidis (see Allis ).
French: variant of Allain , a cognate of 1 above, and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Frederick W. Cox, Sr., Manti Citizen
COX, FREDERICK W., SR, farmer, of Manti, son of Frederick W. and Emeline (Whiting), born in Windom, Foliage county, Ohio, November 6, 1836. In 1852 the family came to Manti, crossing the plains in an …
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